Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
What is wrong with sending it through the post?
I can't pickup new equipment that I find there this way.
I also miss out on viewing any latest tech. they have there and since they have many large departments you can get to see some unreleased products being demo'd or tested at times. Companies send their reps there for presentations and demo's. Also I like to work with the engineers and the professor that's head of lab there along with my uncle and see what they're doing because they have much more knowledge and experience than I do, as well as the right contacts, industry feedback and resources to test. You usually get to learn a lot my being there than by hearing it over the phone and I usually want to meet my uncle anyway. He's an exciting man.

What is your average read speed? With an 500GB Sata II HD i get 56MB/s with my 8 year old 20GB IDE 12,5MB/s.
SATAII-80GB: Burst 188MB/s - Av.R 60MB/s (CPU 1%)
SATAII-80GB: Burst 168MB/s - Av.R 53MB/s (CPU 2%)
UDMA6-80GB: Burst 89MB/s - Av.R 70MB/s (CPU 0%)

They had problems with higher clocks on the first K8's in 65nm too. Can be there is a leakage problem with the L2/L3 cache as there are no 2MB L2 65nm k8's also.
Yeah but K8 is inferior to K10 nFET/pFET transistor performance, these have improved current leakage over K8 rev.G2.